Reviews
Finesse
Evan Christopher’s Django à la Créole
Evan Christopher is one of the US’s foremost young jazz musicians. Resident in New Orleans, he has worked with musicians...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Dois Selos e um Carimbo
How can you top a debut album that has spent over 100 weeks in the Portuguese charts, powered by the...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Forecast
Anyone who likes hand-crafted folk music, dramatic pop songs and excellent musicianship is in for a special treat. The Old...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Putan de Cançon
The latest album by the neo-troubadours of Marseille, or to be more precise, the adjacent port of La Ciotat, opens...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Rendez-vous Barbès
The opening number, ‘Sidi Yahia-bnef Paris’, effortlessly mixes elements of Gnawa trance with a low-slung growling rock riff that The...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Diversions
Based in the Scottish Highlands, but with a line-up also drawn from California, Cape Breton and Ireland, Dàimh (pronounced ‘dive’,...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Manuia!
A re-release of a cult album from almost ten years ago, Manuia! plunges us into an aural world of singular...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Balkan Fever London – Mind the Brass
Phis new compilation of UK bands is the latest in a long line of localised Gypsy or Balkan scenes sprouting...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Tasca Beat
It’s little wonder that it took almost ten years for OqueStrada to release their first album. It wasn’t a question...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
Eusebio
Two years ago the Italian singer Giulia Tellarini and her chums were among the multi-national swarms of tourists strumming guitars...
Reviewed in issue October/2010
